The Perception Trap: Why Used Prices Dominate Industry Confidence It is notoriously tough to know if a watch brand is doing well or not. Ironically, this fact applies whether you work internally at a timepiece company or are trying to guess the economic performance of a watch company when...
Two feats of horology shall forever carry the torch of fine watchmaking: skeletonization and tourbillons. Even if all other marketing efforts have come to fail it, the industry should be able to unconditionally rely on these two remarkable achievements in mechanics. Case in point: the H. Moser &...
The Biver watch brand is now a few years old, but it hasn’t really come into its own yet. There is the making of something there. Circa 2026, though, Jean Claude-Biver’s eponymous watch brand has some nice products and potential, but does not yet represent a fully-formed brand narrative....
If there’s one word that describes young boutique Dutch brand De Rijke & Co., it’s playful. Even in its more serious, dressy offerings, there’s a whimsical undercurrent that gives each design from the brand a sense of levity and flat-out fun without sacrificing the feel of old-money refinement....
Oak & Oscar Partners with the U.S. Men’s Curling Team for 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics If it seemed like curling was on the broadcast every time you tuned into Olympics coverage last month, you’re not crazy. Thanks to a 10-team round robin-style tournament in each of the men’s, women’s,...
How the decade known for some of the worst fashion and design disasters of the modern era (think brutalist architecture, loud paisley prints, wood paneling, and carpeted bathrooms) simultaneously birthed some of the best and most enduring dive watch designs of the modern era will forever remain...
A few years ago, Louis Vuitton’s La Fabrique du Temps watchmaking facility in Geneva showed me something special. It was a pocket watch that would serve as the base for a number of artistically unique automaton minute-repeater pocket watches. Designed to exist within the brand’s Escale family of...
Since 2024, H. Moser & Cie has been a sponsor of the Alpine Formula One Racing team. In the relatively short time since announcing the partnership, Moser has already created several different Alpine edition watches. However, just ahead of the 2026 F1 season, Moser has launched a new duo of...
Hermès is a watchmaker that keeps things quiet and quietly impresses. Every year, at Watches & Wonders, I have the opportunity to see some thoughtfully designed, well-made, and, of course, luxuriously priced Hermès watches — only to then never once encounter them again for another 51 weeks until...
While it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, I found myself really enjoying this new numbered reissue watch from Zurich-based Ollech & Wajs. Historically, Ollech & Wajs produced timepieces that were sold to soldiers (including the United States military). These timepieces were famously worn on the...
I don’t like chronographs. I don’t like chronographs. I don’t like chronographs. I have to keep repeating that to myself so that I don’t buy Traska’s newest watch. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that Traska was able to create a chronograph I felt I actually wanted to own. The brand is known for...
Maybe people already secretly harbor the same feelings I do toward this complication. Maybe this edition of Wait a Minute! is superfluous. But superfluous is exactly how I’d describe a perpetual calendar. The complication demonstrates its value once a year and has none of the whimsy of other...
